Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
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It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
